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Petition of Aurelia Allous to the acting syndic about an assault by a neighbour TM 15287Oxyrhynchos1. Mai 336

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A petition from Aurelia Allous, daughter of Thonios, of the village of Taampemou, to Flavius Julianus, acting syndic of the Oxyrhynchite nome. She complains that her neighbour Pabanos tried to kill her two pigs at a shared irrigation channel and, when she stopped him, attacked her and tried to drown her in the channel. It was written on 1 May 336 at Oxyrhynchus.

In English machine translation

In the consulship of Virius Nepotianus and Tettius Facundus, the most illustrious, Pachon 6. To Flavius Julianus, administering the office of syndic (advocate) of the Oxyrhynchite nome, from Aurelia Allous daughter of Thonios, from the village of Taampemou in the 5th pagus. In the evening hours of yesterday our two pigs, making their way onto our own land, got into the water channel of the irrigation machine belonging to our fields and to a certain Pabanos from the same village. The aforementioned Pabanos, happening to be there holding a small scraper (?) in his hands, wanted to kill the pigs, and when I restrained him, since he had in no way been harmed by the pigs, he desisted from his attack on the pigs and attacked me, wanting to drown me in the water channel, so that had it not been by some providence the […] of the oxen working the water-lift […] […] by him in the water channel […] […] […] […]

The syndic (syndikos) was a municipal official who acted as public advocate and handled complaints of this kind. The end of the petition, including the request, is lost.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Petition to an Acting Syndic). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 1. Mai 336 · Oxyrhynchos

ὑπατείας Οὐιρίου Νεπωτιανοῦ καὶ Τεττίου Φακούνδου τῶν λαμπροτάτων , Παχὼν ϛ. Φλαουΐῳ Ἰουλιανῷ διοικοῦντι συνδικίαν Ὀξυρυγχίτου παρὰ Αὐρηλίας Ἀλλοῦτος Θωνίου ἀπὸ κώμης Τααμπεμοῦ ε πάγου. ἑσπεριναῖς ὥραις τῇ χθὲς ἡμέρᾳ ἡμέτεροι χοῖροι δύο τὴν ὁρμὴν ποιούμενοι ἐπὶ ἡμέτερον ἔδαφος γε…